Meant To Be Quotes - Page 5

• nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Grieving, Great Love, Half

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.330, Macmillan

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• There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

  Neil Tennant

  People, Satisfaction, Paradox

  "Pet Shop Boys: cab drivers ask us if we've retired". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.

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• I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Cheating, Lying, Tired

  Sidney Sheldon (2010). “Doomsday Conspiracy: The New Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Because this is our life. We met on the road; we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Long, Were Meant To Be, Mets

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• Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. “Hi,” he says. “I’m Daniel.” “Hi,” I reply. “I’m June.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, June, Hands

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.230, Penguin

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• there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Clarity

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• Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.

  Thomas Hughes

  Men, Long, Temptation

  Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.29, Litres

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• I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Museums, Pieces

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• 1. Stress improvement, not perfection (or winning). 2. Don't take yourself too seriously; laugh at yourself and have fun. 3. Set attainable goals; reach them and then set higher ones. 4. Be positive, walk tall, smile often, don't complain or procrastinate. 5. Prepare purposely, but don't overtrain. 6. Remember- Sports is a game and meant to be enjoyable.

  Dick Gould

  Sports, Running, Fun

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• If two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.

  Sarah

  Two, People, Crow

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• Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

  Anne Rice

  Art, Shock, Madmen

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• My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

  Walter Mosley

  Art, Father, Responsibility

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.10, Black Classic Press

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• It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.

  L. J. Smith

  Love You, Mean, Together

  L.J. Smith (2009). “Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.

  L. J. Smith

  Soulmate, Destiny, Thinking

  L.J. Smith (2008). “Night World No. 1: Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.

  Jan Tschichold

  Children, Adults, Littles

  Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers

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• Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.

  Steven Erikson

  Children, Sacrifice, Love Is

  "Memories of Ice". Book by Steven Erikson, 2001.

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• Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to be a man – and how much my sexuality would perpetually challenge those meanings—could be found in arguments posed by feminists. What can I say? I identified.

  Todd Haynes

  Men, Thinking, Feminist

  Todd Haynes (2007). “Far From Heaven, Safe, and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Three Screenplays”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Want, Were Meant To Be, Accomplish

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jul 26, 2013

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• When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

  Suzanne Ciani

  Labels, Records, Firsts

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• Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

  Robin Hobb

  Men, Goes On, May

  Robin Hobb (2003). “Mad Ship”, p.150, Spectra

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• Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconn ects us to the life we were meant to live, the people we were meant to be, and the contributions we were meant to give.

  Debbie Ford

  People, Giving, Shadow

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• He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Two, Three

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.8, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

  Candice Accola

  Writing, People, Pages

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• Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Life Is, Areas

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• Abraham: You did not come into this environment to create through action. Instead, your action is meant to be a way in which you enjoy what you have created through thought.

  Esther Hicks

  Way, Action, Environment

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham”, p.161, ReadHowYouWant.com

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